I know it may be hard to believe, but no one can make you angry.  No one can make you cry.

Yes, people can behave in ways that you do not prefer, but ultimately it is always your choice on how you choose to react to their actions.

Have an argument with someone?

Okay, now that it is over you can choose to let it go and no longer think about it.  It is your choice.  If you choose to dwell on it, then you will only be damaging yourself.

It may be tempting to want to hold on to anger because:  “You know you were right”  or because “That is not fair”, but anger weakens you over time.  You may feel empowered by anger, but it wreaks havoc on your body and your health….

When it comes to arguments (especially with spouses) Kim Miller use to teach:  “I would rather be happy than right.”

The law of attraction tells us that we get more of what we feel like, so if you allow yourself to feel angry often, you will be attracting more things for you to feel angry about.

How often do you hear that?

Not often enough, I am sure.

Most of us are too hard on ourselves and we spend far too much time focusing on the one thing we did wrong that day and forget to praise all the wonderful things we are doing everyday.

You really are a great person who is getting better everyday in every way.  The mere fact that you are reading this is proof of that.  So try not to be so hard on yourself.

Remember, focus on what you want… not on what you don’t want.

So what if you make a mistake here and there.  That is to be expected.  No one…  (and I mean NO ONE) is perfect.

So give yourself the praise you need, and tell yourself how great you truly are!

It was a HUGE success…   Thank You to everyone involved.

The sale may be closed, but Things are STILL absolutely CRAZY around here.

The looks the neighbors have been giving me when I load my kids into a car that is filled nearly to the roof with packages…..   

Yes, it is time for another birthday.

So Guess How Many Years Young I will Become On Sunday the 17th

Simply hit the link to leave a comment on this post, and take a guess at my age, and if you are the first one to get it right, you will win a prize.

HINT: I am between 18 – 100 years old.

The Prize is an unopened  bottle of Acuity Brain Formula from The Brain Evolution System, which I reviewed here.

This Bottle Was Given To Me From Brain Evolution.

It is supposed to help you think clearer and improve your memory.

So please take a moment, and simply type in your guess in my comments area.  The winner will be announced in next weeks newsletter.

I will contact the winner and ask for your shipping address then, so I can mail you your prize.  Yes, shipping is on me.

One guess per person please.

PS-  Keep your eyes peeled on your mail box if you are a member of my weekly newsletter, because I am going to have a BIG surprise for you coming VERY soon (hopefully next week).

Where did you get your beliefs from?  Did you pick them up along the beaten path of life, or were they given to you by your parents when you were still a child?

No matter where your beliefs are from, I challenge you to take a long hard honest look at them and see if they are serving you.

Since your beliefs are creating your personal world, it would seem wise to only hang on to beliefs that serve you.

For example, if you believe that life is tough, you will be creating a very tough life for yourself.  You might believe that to be true because your parents had a tough life and you have had a tough life too.

So what?

Who cares what your life has been like before today.   The past is simply the result of previous thinking.

If you do not like having a tough life I suggest you replace that belief!

I believe that things in life go easily and smoothly.  I also believe that I can have anything I put my mind to.

So when I want something, I simply pull out a Manifesting Card, and I focus on the end result of already possessing it.

Then I sit back and watch the universe re-align things in a way to make my wish come true.

How easy is that?

Yes, I sometimes have to take action, and when I see the events align in a way that leads me to believe that I need to take a small easy action I jump at the opportunity because the universe loves speed.

I USED to believe that life was tough.   I replaced that belief and now life is easy.

I USED to believe that “money was hard to come by”, and now money comes in steady and when I need more something suddenly happens to give me the more of what I need.

I USED to feel guilty when I went out spending money, but now I get home and usually find that I earned more than normal that day and like magic the “extra” money I spent is already replaced.

I USED to be unhealthy, and now (You Wont Believe This – Click Here For Details) my health is better than anytime in life, even though I am the oldest I have ever been.  (Of course, so are you at this very moment.)

I highly recommend you change your beliefs if they are working against you.  You can do this with the power of SUBLIMINAL VIDEOS, or SUBLIMINAL AUDIOS, or Daily Affirmations, but if you need someone to walk guide you every step of the way,  you will want to check out the SECRET COURSE.

Best wishes to you in all your future successes.

A quest to find happiness…  with surprising results!

First off, I am lucky enough to have discovered how to make money on the internet even when I am nowhere near a computer.   Using the techniques found in the online Wealth Course, I make money everyday no matter what I am doing.  So my income barely noticed my 41 days off….

This is how I make money on autopilot

Of course I used the law of attraction to manifest a lifestyle of reliable income that created the free time I so desired.

It’s important to know that I used the manifesting cards to attract (or create) the lifestyle that I desired and then I let the universe deliver it to me.  I didn’t set out to find a way to make money online….  that is just how the universe delivered it to me.

So on my 41 days off I didn’t sit in deep meditation on top of mountain somewhere seeking the meaning of life.  No, I did meditate, but mostly I immersed myself into the things that I enjoy.

I learned how to play golf and enjoyed it tremendously.  I spent time with my friends and neighbors.  Took some family trips, went camping and did some fishing.

I also bought a lot of things that I didn’t need. A new laptop, new computer, large hard drive, garden stuff, put in a new sprinkler system, car related toys,  electronic gadgets, collectibles, luxury camping equipment and thousands of dollars of miscellaneous products.

You see, my quest was to find what makes me happy.   What exactly is it in life that produces a lasting happiness.

I think you will be surprised by the results of my experiment.

It was no surprise that those late at night infomercial products did not create a lasting happiness.  In fact, the happiest I ever felt with those products was when I watched the ad on television or read about it online.

Even though some of the products I purchased were a lot of fun at first, none of them produced lasting happiness.

Teaching my nine year old to fish….  that provided true joy.   Not the hundreds of dollars of fishing gear, not going out on the boat….  it was the teaching and spending time with him and creating that father and son bond that created a lasting happiness.

I was surprised to find how much I missed all of you.  In my rush to find happiness I neglected to realize that I enjoy this site and I enjoy my mailing list.  Reading your emails and replying to them gives me a sense of purpose.  Knowing that I am helping people while providing for my family is a great feeling.

Best of all for me was knowing that I didn’t have to work… didn’t have to lift a finger and that money would still come in.  That kind of security….  that was very comforting.

Freedom…

The Freedom to do what I want when I want to do it, that is a great feeling.  To know that each morning when I wake up I can do whatever I desire with my day….  that is priceless!

Knowing that I made money while I was sleeping….   That’s a great feeling too.

Sure, the toys and gadgets can be fun….  but at the end of the day (or the end of 41 days), its the free time that is the most important.

If you knew for a fact that using the official Secret Course would give you all the time that you needed….  the freedom do live the life you desire…  would you order it?

Of course you would.

Time is the most valuable thing you and I have.  Time is the one thing money can’t buy…

When you get a job your boss is paying you for hours of your life.  Put in 40 hours and get paid your hourly wage.

But what about the time for yourself?  Time to spend with your kids… time for romance…  time for fun.

It is completely backwards to give 5 days a week to a job and 2 days a week for yourself.

When you work online, you can reverse that and spend 2 days of week working and 5 days a week playing.

Once you have everything in place, like I do, you can take 41 days off like me and you’ll still get checks in the mail and money deposited directly into your account.

The internet runs 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.  It never closes…

Nothing feels better than making money while helping people, although making money while you sleep does come pretty close.

Knowing that while I am playing golf or fishing with my boy that I am earning money…   well….  that’s a great feeling.

In conclusion, what I found that makes me the happiest in life is time and freedom.

I truly believe that the Secret Course can give you that… and a whole lot more, just like it gave it to me, and hundreds of others.

PS – My “work” online feels more like play.  I love doing this.

When I read the card I allow myself to feel healthy.  I imagine myself with a body that is stronger and full of more vigor.

I lay on my back and with my eyes closed, just before falling asleep, I use the Extraordinary Health visualization/meditation As I use this simple technique, I actually feel stronger and feel healthier.

Now most of you who know me know that it was using the Manifesting Cards method that allowed me to shed over 100lbs of unwanted body weight.

Manifesting Cards work, but for health…  I combined the power of Law of Attraction with mind over matter healing and simply relaxed myself to sleep using this meditation

Amazingly, I was able to cure two conditions that doctors told me were “incurable”.

But right now, I am not trying to overcome anything in particular.   I am just using the Extraordinary Health meditation,  even though I am healthy, because I know that without health nothing else matters.

Something Very Unexpected Has Happened…

But first, I want to speak to anyone who doesn’t think that health is the most important aspect in your life.   I have worked with people in the past who thought money was more important than health, but I always begin by asking them what good would 10 million dollars do you if you had a terminal disease that was going to kill you tomorrow?

Money is important, but not more important than your health.

Love is important, but love is stronger, deeper and longer lasting when the people in love are healthy and not suffering from body pains.

Some people crave power.  While this is not one that I can relate to, because the only power I want is power over my own life, I still have to ask the power hungry person what good would all the power in the world do you if you didn’t have power over your own health?

It is my opinion that health needs to come first.

So as I mentioned earlier, I have been doing this for the last few months and I have had a few strange things happen.

Before I share my amazing results, I have to set the record straight:

For the record: I am not making any medical claims nor am I a doctor.  I am just sharing my own personal experience with the world.  I am not trying to diagnose or cure anyone.

Now, with that out of the way, here is my story:

First, I had a doctors exam, and my doctor ran a full panel of blood tests….  Much to both of our surprise -  everything came back normal.  Now when I say everything , I mean EVERYTHING.

My white blood cell count, my HDL, LDL, triglycerides, liver enzymes,  RBC, Hct, Hbg, MCV, MCH, RDW, and all the other things they measure (most of which I am never told what they mean unless one or more of them are too high or too low) all came back perfect.

I have been getting blood tests once a year since I was in my twenties and there has ALWAYS been SOMETHING that the doctor wanted to warn me about.  In the past I have had high liver enzymes that made the doctor suspect a fatty liver.  I had a high white blood cell count which led the doctor to think I had some kind of underlying infection.  I have had high “bad” cholesterol  and I even had “low” good cholesterol show up twice.  I have had borderline values in various things that led the doctor to tell me we were going to “keep an eye on that with a followup test in 6 months”.

Here I am, closing in on 40 and my blood test comes back perfect…  EVERYTHING exactly where it needs to be!

For that, I am very grateful and happy.

But last week I had something equally amazing happen.

I started getting headaches and I noticed that it appeared to be coming from my eyes.  When I put my glasses on my vision seemed to be worse than it was without my glasses.

I have been near sighted since I was a child.

I decided it must be time for an eye exam and I suspected that I may need a stronger prescription for my lenses.  It had been at least two years since my last eye exam.

I went in and had a full eye exam and to my surprise I was told that my left eye had somehow become nearly perfect and that it no longer needed  a correcting.

My right eye had improved some, but the prescription he wrote for it was so mild that he said he wasn’t sure it would be worth getting glasses for.

This is why things appeared more blurry to me WITH my glasses than it did without my glasses.

I showed him my old glasses and he thought that someone had not done a good eye exam and had incorrectly given me far to strong of lenses.  I tried to reassure him that these glasses used to work great for me but he doubted it possible that eyes would be improving and found it more likely that my previous eye exam, which was done by different eye doctor, was flawed.

So, after three to four months of consistently using the Extraordinary Health Meditation each night just before falling asleep, my health REALLY does seem to be improving.  I feel better and a blood test and even an eye exam seem to back it up.

Skeptics would call it a coincidence or luck.

I like to call it “Creating My Own Luck”.

Needless to say….  I AM VERY EXCITED.

Life was more exciting and full of promise.  I believed I would change the world, and even though I have embarked on a career that has helped many people, when I was a child possibilities were limitless.

One of the amazing things about being a child is getting to do things for the first time.  The world was new and exciting.  Every experience had a first time and nothing compares to the excitement of doing something for the first time.

Remember your first kiss?

Even though I love my wife very much, a simple peck on the lips these days is common place and in fact is expected whenever we part each others company or when she comes home after being out all day.

Remember the first time you drove a car?

My nerves were screaming as I drove my parents car down the highway at night.  Sure, it was a straight stretch of road and today I drive without even noticing it, but the first time was a very different kind of experience.

Those first times make you feel alive.

The first time you vacation somewhere everything it new.  The first time I went to Las Vegas was far more exciting than the third time.  My first trip to Victoria, British Columbia was wonderful and more exciting and fun than any time I have visited since.

How long has it been since you felt alive?

Now that I am in my thirties I have to admit that most of what I do I have done many times before.  It may be comforting, but it doesn’t feel as exciting and vibrant as doing something for the first time.

It doesn’t take any money to do something new.  In fact, you can take something that you do regularly and change it up so that you are doing it in a way that is new and exciting.

Even something as mundane as taking a shower.  Sure, the first time you took a shower by yourself it was probably pretty exciting.  You were not sure how to get the water exactly right and didn’t know how long it would last.  There were new sights and smells and even the feel of the water falling onto your body was a new experience.

Tonight I decided to do something new.  It was on a whim.  Something that I had never done before.  I took a shower in the dark.

If you are anything like my wife, you probably think I am a bit off my rocker, but I assure you that taking a shower in the dark, at least for me, was an exciting new experience.

It was completely dark, so just moving in the bathroom was a new experience.  I noticed that I kept the water extra hot, probably because the blackness around me felt so cold.  Every noise in the house stood out.  Reaching for the shampoo was no problem, but I had to use my sense of smell to find the right bottle among the many bottles that belong to my wife.  Rinsing soap I could not see was an interesting experience.

In essence, I took an otherwise mundane experience and made it into something completely new.

Another option is to take a cold shower, where you only turn on the cold water.  WOW…  that is completely different from what I am used to also.  I guarantee you will feel awake after one of those…  if you can stand it for the length of a full shower.

I just rearranged the furniture in my house and now every room has that new exciting feeling.  My front room is so different that every day when I walk out into it I am surprised.  Sure, the effect will only last for a week or two at tops….  that’s because I will soon be used to it this way.

The other day I bought a new piece of software for editing videos.  The first hour I thought to myself “wow, this is nothing like I’ve ever used before”.  Now, a just a couple days later it has already lost it’s excitement and is just another tool that I enjoy using.

How many gadgets have you bought and were excited to use it for the first time?  New cell phones are a great example of this.  It’s exciting to open the box and play with the new phone discovering all the features, but a month or two later it’s just a phone.

Here are some ideas of ways you can feel young again,

1. Go to a new restaurant

Try to pick somewhere with a new kind of food that you have never tried. Mexican, Greek, Indian, Russian, Middle Eastern, Tai, Chinese, Mongolian, Cajun, Sushi, or something you have never tried before.

2. Try a new sport you’ve never tried.

3. Try using your non-dominant hand for a day.
It’s amazing how strange it feels to do something with my left hand.  Even something as simple as signing my own name.

4. Take part in an activity new to you…
Try your hand at bingo or a play a game of pool or use a batting cage.  The world is full of activities that most of us have not tried.  You don’t have to be good at it in order to enjoy doing something new.

5. Get involved with a charity or community service.
Volunteering is a great way to interact with others and give back to the community at the same time. And sharing your time is not just good for your mental health. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, found that as older adults participated in Experience Corps, they showed both mental and physical improvements, including increased strength and endurance. By choosing activities that are personally rewarding, you may discover similar benefits.

6. Be a tourist in your own town!
You’ll be surprised how much there is to do right where you live!  Contact your local chamber of commerce or look your city or area up in Google.com  and you’ll be amazed at what you find to do and sights to see you probably never seen in your own area.

7.  Join a Local Group.
You can check out the website:  http://www.meetup.com/ and see what is going on where you live.  There are thousands of groups of people getting together for everything you can imagine and more.

8. Explore a new area.
It doesn’t have to be anywhere in specific, you could drive to a city that you have never been to before and spend the day exploring all the neat sights, sounds and local shops.  If you prefer the outdoors, when not hike a new trail or visit a lake or camp grounds you’ve never been to.

9. Explore New Romance, or Re-Kindle An Existing Romance.
It doesn’t matter how long you have been together with your spouse, you can rekindle that spark and find brand new excitement.  Share a candlelit dinner, create a thoughtful gift or take your partner out dancing.  Suprise him or her with something brand new and you may just find yourself pleasantly surprised with a new romantic excitement…  just like in the “good ole days”.

If your single, try dating someone unique or unusual and explore outside your normal comfort zone.

Of course, if you really want to spice things up in the bedroom….  you may want to explore 500 Love Making Secrets. It’s even Oprah approved!  Okay… nuff said on that.

10.  One of the best ways to feel young, and keep your mind young…  is to challenge your mind with something brand new.
Learning a new language is one of the surest ways to keep your mind young.  Rocket Spanish, is supposed to be the fastest way to begin speaking Spanish.  No only does it keep your mind young, but it opens the door to a whole new world of conversation and eaves dropping.  You’d be amazed at what Spanish speaking people will say to each other in front of you because they presume you can’t understand what they are saying.  That alone makes for great fun.

If you have any additional ideas on how to feel mentally young again, please leave your comments below!

That was the question that the documentary Raw for 30 Days – (DVD) set out to prove.

I was told about this film back in Jun 2008 (I wrote about it here) back when it was still in production.

The basic principle is this:  Take six real people with “incurable insulin dependent diabetes” and remove all their medicines and simply feed them a raw food diet.

The results are amazing!  There is a couple of surprises that I REALLY want to share with you….  In fact, it’s hard for me NOT to tell you what happens, but I won’t SPOIL any of the surprises for you, I promise.

If you can’t buy this movie, I urge you to rent it!  It’s not just a documentary on food, it’s an emotional roller coaster with at least two shocking surprises that I certainly didn’t see coming.  My wife was crying with joy several times over…  Yes, I found some fluid gathering in my eyes also.

I assumed that somehow… someway these people were going to reverse diabetes, despite medical doctors assertion that this is completely impossible.  I had no idea, however,  that anyone could lose that much weight in just 30 days.  It was just shocking.

Not only did they apparently “cure” diabetes, but they lost more weight than seemed humanly possible and they dramatically lowered blood pressure as well.  In fact, all sorts of health conditions cleared up (one of them was quite personal, but I wont ruin that surprise either).

Watch The Preview Video

Being someone who is dedicated to health and self development I have embarked on the raw food journey myself.  Fresh off my Shocking Dairy Detox, I embarked on the raw food journey the day after watching this moving documentary.

Even though the movie was VERY informative, I still wanted to be armed with the best in Raw Food Secrets.  I also knew I was going to need a huge selection of raw food recipes, and they had to be easy because I am not particularly talented in the kitchen.

I found everyting I needed, and more, dirt cheap from here:  Raw Food Super Kit

It would be foolish to attempt any radical change in your diet without having some expert guidance.  You can mess this up, just like any diet, if you don’t know what you are doing.

The best part for me was that the Raw Food Super Kit was not militant in it’s belief that you must be 100% raw to benefit from this.  In fact, it specifically recommends 80% raw or 90% raw as healthy viable options.

That’s good, because I want to insure that I get enough protein, so I plan to have a small amount of meat, and I certainly am not going to eat meat raw!  ha ha ha….   (Although I know some people who eat Salmon that way.)

How long?   I am not sure yet.  If you remember, I had no plan to remain dairy free for the rest of my life, but once I got off dairy I never went back.  It’s amazing how little I even think about dairy products now that I have been off of them for over two months.

If all goes well, I may be MOSTLY raw for a long… long time.

If you are a vegetarian or a vegan or living a mostly raw lifestyle I would very much like to hear from you and what you think.

Wish me luck….

Oh, and if you want to try going raw with me, check out the free mini course on raw foods here.

Your Habits!

As you sit and read this, everything about you has been created by yesterday’s habits.

No, I am not talking about bad habits such as smoking.  I am talking about the habits that make up everyday life.  For example, if you go to bed about the same time each night, then when you go to bed has become a habit.

Truth be told….  You are a collection of habits.

Are you overweight?  Unhealthy?  Low in energy?  Then most likely you have a habit of eating unhealthy foods.  Eating Healthy can be easy and fun….  and even though it is only a small part of your life, it can have drastic changes, such as:  Weight Loss, Increased Energy, quicker healing, less illnesses, younger looking hair and skin, and reversing a whole slew of problems extra weight can cause.

Eating bad foods are not a problem.  You can eat Pizza and ice cream….  it’s the habit of eating poorly that IS the problem.  If you have a habit of eating healthy and only eat pizza on occasion, then pizza will not be a problem.   (Unless of course you decide to go off dairy completely like me)

Habits can work for you… or they can work against you.  Eating healthy is obviously one habit that works for you.

Thinking Positively is another great habit.  I was raised in a household of extremely negative people.  It has taken me many years to develop a positive outlook on life.

I promise you, positive thinking is a habit that will benefit you tremendously.  Not only will your health improve (lower blood pressure and lower risks for many diseases), but you will enjoy life more.

Of course, the Law of Attraction works IN PART on positive thinking as well.

The best positive habit I have is my daily use of the Manifesting Cards.  This habit actively shapes my life each day.  Sure, it only takes a few minutes twice a day, but it keeps my mind focused and it gets me what I want.  Every single time.  Without fail.

I used to be a drinker in my early twenties.  It was a habit that I gave up.  Do I still drink?  On occasion I do.  I gave up the habit, but I don’t tell myself I can’t have a drink.

In fact, if I try to tell myself I can’t have something, I find myself wanting it even more.  So I never forbid anything that I enjoy.  I merely remove the habit of its use if it is not beneficial.

Many people fail because they forbid themselves things…  such as the foods you enjoy.  It’s not the food…  it is the habit of eating that food (if it’s bad for you) that is the problem.

HINT: When you make a habit out of eating healthy, you will find yourself enjoying the flavor of healthy foods.  (Take a look at this Cookbook as an example)

This line of thinking can be applied to any part of your life.  If you want something, set up a habit that brings you closer to having what it is that you want.

If you want to shed fat, set up a habit of cutting a few calories.  Or perhaps create a habit of exercise.  (Nothing is stopping you from doing both.)

A great way to improve you life is to identify your habits and find which habits work for you and which habits work against you.  Once you know, you can adjust your habits by making small changes in your daily life, and in the end you will be rewarded with HUGE positive changes.

Seriously consider getting Manifesting Cards if you have not already.  It will help you create positive habits and help you focus on what is important to you in your life.  Then you can attract what you want in just minutes each day.

My Secret Course includes Manifesting Cards, and a slew of other Law of Attraction books that have the power to transform your life from where you are stuck today — to where you really want to be.

In the end, who you are comes down to how you have been acting and thinking in the past… and that is completely defined by your habits.

So go on and do what you can to create a life filled with healthy, happy and money making habits!

Best Wishes,

John Derrick

PS – Just about anything in excess can become a bad habit.  Even something as harmless as video games can take over your life.  The key is to find a balance.

PPS – When you are having that glass of wine, or drinking that beer, or eating a slice of pizza.  ENJOY YOURSELF.  Don’t feel guilty.  If it’s not a habit, it should be enjoyed to its fullest!

But I have been a milk drinking, cheese eating dairy lover since I was a small child. I grew up drinking milk every single day in my breakfast cereal and as a snack after school and the drink served with dinner.

A while ago I cut out most of my milk drinking and replaced it with Soy milk. Of course now I am told that soy milk MIGHT be bad… mostly it’s one famous doctor who says soy milk is bad, and even though I have not seen any concrete evidence, the anti-soymilk campaign moves onward. That’s okay, because Almond milk tastes great and so does Oat milk… but I’m sure someone is already writing me an email to tell me the evils of these milks also.

WARNING: Don’t try to detox on your own…

What I want to tell you is shocking…

I had no idea. Honestly. And I like to think that I am “in the know” about a lot of things.

Yes… I did know that dairy is loaded with fat and cholesterol. That is why I limited my intake of it, reasonably.

About a week ago my wife said she had been talking to a friend of her’s and that the two of them had decided to go a week off of dairy. They wanted to know if I would join them.

She had some printed pages that touted all the health benefits, but without a moments hesitation I agreed to join them.

I grabbed the best dairy free cookbook I could find (I love this book) and I was ready to begin.  Of course I ate a good deal of dairy on the weekend leading up to the Monday we began the 7 days of no dairy.

I wondered how great would I feel after a week of no dairy? Or perhaps nothing would seem different and 8 days later I would be enjoying a piece of cheese.

Mmmmm  Cheese….

BOY WAS I WRONG

Giving up dairy was about as hard as I expected for the first couple of days. By the end of day two I was feeling pretty ill, which is out of the norm for me. Honestly, ever since I flipped my life upside down with the law of attraction I have become a high energy and healthy kind of guy.  The kind of guy who always feels great.

Day three, instead of rolling out of bed with enthusiasm and excitement for the day ahead, I woke up feeling more tired than I was when I went to bed.

In fact, I felt groggy and brain foggy all day.

I’ll skip the day-to-day play-by-play, and tell you that for seven days straight I have felt terrible, in different ways. I can’t concentrate… I am experiencing headaches, which is something I never have.

I don’t have the deep down energy, and I tire easily. My stomach is bloated and I am retaining water.

My skin has broken out in three different kinds of rashes in three different places on my body. In general I am itchy… and honestly I am cranky. Strange emotions are coming up… anxiety and anger, which I have not felt in many… many years.

I am even late on the 11 cent sale I promised all of you…. because of this brain fog and lack of energy.

Long story short, going off dairy cold turkey causes the body to go into a detox. When I search online I find claims that going off dairy for one week will cause an entire gallon of mucus to exit your body. Obviously, things are not always pretty.

Today it is 10 days later, and I don’t have any desire to go back. Food tastes great without dairy. It seems that at the 10 day mark, for me at least, the cravings have mostly subsided.

Seriously….

My body never went through this kind of hell when I quit smoking. Sure, I have cravings… and it was difficult… but I didn’t get bad breath, skin rashes, headaches, lack of energy, bloating, water retention, and a host of other not-so-pleasant physical problems.

The only craving I have is for cheese. I LOVED CHEESE. Now I know why…

THIS IS GOING TO BLOW YOU AWAY

Cheese is actually physically addictive… no kidding. I must have missed the Surgeon Generals Warning label on the block of cheese.

YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT DRUG IS INSIDE CHEESE!!!

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So here is an excerpt from an article in the Orlando Sentinel July 13 2003:

Of all the potentially addicting foods, cheese may be the most complex. In research studies using vegan and vegetarian diets to control cholesterol or reduce body weight, most participants soon forget the lure of ice cream, sour cream, and even burgers and chicken. But for many people, the taste for cheese lingers on and on. Yes, 70 percent of its calories may come from waist-augmenting fat, and, ounce for ounce, it may harbor more cholesterol than a steak. But that cheese habit is tough to break.Why is cheese so addicting? Certainly not because of its aroma, which is perilously close to old socks. The first hint of a biochemical explanation came in 1981, when scientists at Wellcome Research Laboratories in Research Triangle Park, N.C., found a substance in dairy products that looked remarkably like morphine. After a complex series of tests, they determined that, surprisingly enough, it actually was morphine. By a fluke of nature, the enzymes that produce opiates are not confined to poppies — they also hide inside cows’ livers. So traces of morphine can pass into the animal’s bloodstream and end up in milk and milk products. The amounts are far too small to explain cheese’s appeal. But nonetheless, the discovery led scientists on their search for opiate compounds in dairy products.

And they found them. Opiates hide inside casein, the main dairy protein. As casein molecules are digested, they break apart to release tiny opiate molecules, called casomorphins. One of these compounds has about one-tenth the opiate strength of morphine. The especially addicting power of cheese may be due to the fact that the process of cheese-making removes water,lactose and whey proteins so that casein is concentrated. Scientists are now trying to tease out whether these opiate molecules work strictly within the digestive tract or whether they pass into the bloodstream and reach the brain directly.

(some paragraphs about chocolate addiction snipped)

The cheese industry is miles ahead of them, having gone to great lengths to identify people who are most vulnerable to addiction. It dubs them “cheese cravers,” and tracks their age, educational level and other demographics so as to target them with marketing strategies that are tough to ignore. With a $200 million annual research and marketing budget, the dairy industry is not content to have you just sprinkling a little mozzarella on your salad. It is looking for those Americans who will eat it straight out of the package, whatever the cost to their waistlines or cholesterol levels.

At a “Cheese Forum” held Dec. 5, 2000, Dick Cooper, the vice president of Cheese Marketing for Dairy Management Inc., laid out the industry’s scheme for identifying potential addicts and keeping them hooked. In his slide presentation, which was released to our organization under the Freedom of Information Act, he asked the question, “What do we want our marketing program to do?” and then gave the answer: “Trigger the cheese craving.” He described how, in a partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the dairy industry launched Wendy’s Cheddar Lover’s Bacon Cheeseburger, which single-handedly pushed 2.25 million pounds of cheese during the promotion period. That works out to 380 tons of fat and 1.2 tons of pure cholesterol in the cheese alone. A similar promotion with Pizza Hut launched the “Ultimate Cheese Pizza,” which added an entire pound of cheese to a single pizza and sold five million pounds of it during a six-week promotion in 2000. The presentation concluded with a cartoon of a playground slide with a large spider web woven to trap children as they reached the bottom. The caption had one spider saying to another, “If we pull this off, we’ll eat like kings.”

I am sharing this with you because I care. I wish someone had told me how harsh detoxing could be.

I wish someone had told me how addictive Cheese can by.  Or even mentioned the morphine compound found inside.

I’m the kind of guy who turns down pain pills, even after a surgery…

I never knew I was ingesting Morphine with my cheese and crackers.

So if you decide to clean your body up… and want to cleanse yourself without all the horrible side-effects that I have had… you really need to READ THIS NOW.

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Me… I just made a split second decision to join my wife and her friend…  I decided to make myself the subject of an experiment if you will…

For those of you wondering about my wife and her friend. YES… they had a rough ride also, including migraine headaches (much worse than mine), irritability, skin breakouts (body acne), and emotional instability (although don’t tell my wife I pointed that out… at least not until she is over the detoxing)

And that is what they cared to share… most people are not as forthcoming with their dirty details like I am. What can I say… I try to live my life like an open book… for all to see, observe and hopefully learn from my mistakes.

Oh yes… there has been a positive thing about this diary detox so far…. I have lost 5 pounds even though I feel like I am eating more than usual, and my wife has lost 4 pounds.. her friend didn’t offer up any weight related conversation.

SO… if you want to go off dairy please don’t let this scare you. Instead, just do it slowly. If I had known then what I know now, I would have simply cut my intake of dairy items down over a 2 – 3 week period and went off it slowly.

Knowing what I know now… I just can’t bring myself to ingest anything dairy.

Wishing you the best day,

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I was carrying in one of the large 5 gallon jugs to put on top of the cooler when it struck me. This 5 gallon water jug weighs about 40 lbs. It’s not surprising that when I am carrying one I can feel the strain in my back and in my legs. Because the jugs have a handle built into them, I often carry them two at a time. That’s 10 gallons of water and over 80lbs.

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I have lost over 100lbs in weight. That means that I have lost more weight than two 5 gallon water jugs. When I am carrying all this water and feeling the strain it puts on my body…. I know that my body use to have that strain on it everywhere I went.

I can’t quite wrap my mind around that. How could I lose the weight of 12 gallons of water? Logically I would presume that the volume to fat and water would be similar, but I simply can not imagine that I had an added body volume equivalent to 12 gallons of water.

It certainly puts things into a new perspective.

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Let’s cut to the fact of the matter. If you want to be healthy and don’t want to die early…. you need to do something about it now. The sooner the better.

I want you feel alive and be in vibrant health for a long… long… time!

It would seem logical that if you ate a healthy and balanced diet, you would not need additional vitamins or minerals. The problem is that most of us do not eat an ideal diet that provides us all the nutrients we need. Combine that with the fact that today’s fruits and vegetables are being grown in soil that is lacking in minerals, it becomes nearly impossible to get the nutrients you need by food alone.

That being said, I am not a big fan of chemically created nutrients. For example: Ascorbic Acid is not the same thing as naturally occurring Vitamin C. In fact, it is only one small part of Vitamin C, yet people take Ascorbic Acid daily and the companies producing it call it Vitamin C. Chemical forms of minerals are also vastly different than the natural forms found in plants, and many people argue that the rock forms of minerals are not even usable by the human body and can in fact build up and cause mineral deposits in your body.

That is why I set out to find a plant based nutrient. At first I looked into pills, but I quickly realized that the only way to get all natural plant food nutrition was to either juice it, or purchase it in a powder form. Naturally, I began juicing.

Juicing is incredibly healthy for you and I highly recommend it. The problem becomes the hassle. After a month of juicing, I got tired of buying produce by the pound only to come home and have to scrub it under running water, dry it so it didn’t grow mold, and store in the refrigerator, where it took up a considerable amount of room. Making juice is also very messy and it takes a lot of time to clean up afterward.

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Pesticides , food additives and preservatives, none of those would be needed if we didn’t have such a large population to feed, spread out over such a large geographical area.

Chlorine in the drinking water, mercury in the soil, pollution in the air, mistreatment of animals (livestock), super germs, rampant spread of diseases such as the flu…. None of these would be a problem if the human race had a smaller foot print on the planet. (AKA: Less people)

I am not treading on anyones right to procreate, but… when two people have six children, is it good for the human population as a whole? Obviously the parents decided for whatever reason that it was good for them, but what about the larger picture? Is it even good for the kids?

I think we can all make a difference if we begin treating each other with compassion. It’s easy for some people to pollute someone else’s drinking water if they lack compassion. Simply putting yourself into the shoes of the other person is all it takes. Would you want to drink polluted water?

This individual mentality of “what can I get for me” must evolve into a “what is good for us all” if we want to survive as a species.

Money is not the root of all evil. Money merely intensifies your ability to effect the world around you. You can do more good with money than you can without it. If you felt the need to use the word “evil”, it might be more fitting to say that “Selfishness is the root of all evil”.

Compassion is the solution.

Treat our food supply in a way that you would be proud to feed your own children. Take a job that helps others in some way. Think about the impact on the planet before you throw your old cellphone into the garbage. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Compassion is contagious. Whenever you go out of your way to treat someone kindly, they in turn will treat everyone they meet that day differently. It spreads. It has an effect.

So please… for the good of every human alive…. let’s all try to live our lives with more compassion for others.